The Corruption of the ‘Wrong Brains Experiment’ - the Government is still Covering up Bse in Sheep.
Wednesday August 1st 2001: Government sets up Biosecurity Zone.
The government is setting up a bio-security zone in north yorkshire to stop pharmers spreading the disease, “For the next month or so that will continue to be Mr Mair's fate in north Yorkshire. As the county's chief trading standards' officer, he will monitor the 15 joint police/trading standards patrols whose job is to enforce the law in the tough new 'biosecurity zone' that covers 900 square miles of the county. This night-and-day animal watch is sponging up resources. Volunteers have arrived from trading standards offices in Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Cornwall. Fifteen extra staff have been taken on to run the county's call centre for worried farmers.” [1]

August 3rd 2001: The ‘Wrong Brains’ Experiment Resurrects the Issue of Bse in Sheep.
To provide some background for this diary entry: at the beginning of november 2000, after years of the labour government denying that Sheep might be affected by bse, the food standards agency raised the possibility that Sheep could be infected by the disease and that tests were urgently needed to find out whether this was the case, “A mass screening campaign to determine whether bse has spread to some of Britain's 40 million sheep should be carried out with "great urgency", the Food Standards Agency said yesterday. While bse has been passed to sheep under laboratory conditions it has never been found to have occurred naturally. But agency experts are worried because so few tests have been carried out. "As a matter of great urgency there is a need to develop and apply a rapid screening method so that large numbers of sheep can be tested," the agency said in a review of bse controls.” [2] The code being used in this quote was that the fsa wanted to use john collinge’s tests to determine the spread of bse in the country’s Sheep - as opposed to Mice experiments which usually took up to four years to complete. An experiment had been started in 1997 to determine whether Sheep killed during the period 1990-1992 were being infected but no tests were being carried out to determine the level of bse infection in the current Sheep population i.e. on Sheep currently going into the ooman feedchain. Hereinafter, with the benefit of hindsight, the maffia’s 1997 experiment on Sheep, which was being carried out by the institute for Animal health's neuropathogenesis unit at edinburgh, will be called the ‘wrong brains experiment’.

James meikle publishes an article which points out that the ‘wrong brains experiment’ is showing signs that bse was present in the brains of Sheep culled in 1990-1992, “The spectre of bse being found in sheep has reared its head again, just as supermarkets and farmers urge consumers to help them out of the foot and mouth crisis by eating more lamb. The latest statement from the food standards agency takes us one more tottering step towards realising that theoretical possibility that our flocks were infected with the disease as well as our cattle herds. An experiment is under way to ascertain whether sheep diagnosed in the early 1990s with scrapie - a bse-like disease endemic in sheep since the 19th century - really had bse. The results so far cannot positively distinguish between the two, but are said to be "compatible" with bse having been present. However, scientists are reluctant to draw conclusions at this stage, and point to the possibility that there may have been contamination of samples collected at the same time as bse-infected cow brains. Contingency plans are also in place to cope with the discovery of the disease in the actual flocks, from banning British lamb altogether and slaughtering millions of animals (again) to altering the type of cuts butchers and supermarkets can offer. Scientists are still assessing the significance of another experiment in which they infected cattle with scrapie from sheep. Two died, but their condition has yet to be confirmed as either bse or scrapie. It may be neither. Until the extent of bse infection in sheep is known, another depressing recalculation cannot take place - the danger to humans from eating sheep.” [3] [4]

Roger highfield reports, “Mad cow disease may have been present in sheep a decade ago, the Food Standards Agency admitted yesterday. If the preliminary finding was confirmed, it would have "very serious" implications, it added. Research to check whether bse has spread to sheep has been under way at the Institute for Animal Health's Neuropathogenesis Unit, in Edinburgh, where the theoretical risk was originally identified as a result of experiments in which it was shown that sheep fed bse-infected cows' brains succumbed to infection. Now the results of one experiment searching for evidence of bse in sheep diagnosed a decade ago with scrapie "could be compatible with bse having been in sheep at that time", the agency said. "Our experts advise us that it is not yet possible to draw conclusions from this research since the work is not yet complete and the possibility that there may have been contamination of the samples with bse-infected cow brains needs further investigation."” [5]

In both of these articles it can be seen how the fsa was preparing the brutish public for the possibility that these ‘wrong brain’ tests might be completely useless.

Interestingly, the government must have known about these provisional results before it offered to buy up a couple of million spring Lambs and then encourage the brutish public to eat them. Thus, even though tests were showing that Sheep were infected by bse the government was perfectly willing to buy up these Animals and then try and sell them to the brutish public. Isn’t this a case of domestic bioterrorism?

It should be pointed out that the maffia’s ‘wrong brains experiment’ revealed its complete and utter indifference to the pharming industry’s bse bioterrorism on brutish consumers. In 1997 it decided to carry out tests to see if Sheep were infected with bse but these tests were conducted not on Sheep being put into the ooman feed chain but on Sheep killed between 1990-1992. The only reason that scientists were carrying out tests on Sheep that had been dead for seven years was because this would delay the discovery of the current scale of bse in Sheep and thus prevent the Sheep industry from suffering the same fate as the Cattle industry. If the tests eventually revealed Sheep were infected then pharmers would insist the disease had since died out in the current Sheep population and would then demand a new round of tests be carried out to find out if the disease was still present - which would mean another four years’ worth of experiments. This delay would be caused by the government scientists use of Mice experiments which usually took about four years to complete - as opposed to john collinge’s tests which takes a couple of days. At the very least, all that government scientists needed to do was to take a few Sheep brains’ from abattoirs and put their brains under the microscope to find whether they had bse. It is transparent therefore that the real objective of the ‘wrong brains experiments’ was to delay, for as long as possible, the discovery of any evidence about the presence of bse in Sheep. As regards this objective, the maffia and successive governments have succeeded extraordinarily well. At the beginning of august 2001 i.e. 14 years after the discovery of bse in Cattle, the government’s scientists still haven’t been able to determine whether Sheep have the disease or not. Fourteen years of doing nothing to stop the spread of a deadly disease - whilst government and pharmers demand instant action to slaughter huge numbers of Animals in order to eradicate f&m! This is a form of state sponsored bioterrorism.

August 4th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Mcblair just can’t resist giving Pharmers more Subsidies.
Mcblair has decided to restore subsidies for pharmers to clean up their own pharms, “The cleansing before re-stocking had been stopped for two weeks by the Prime Minister after he was told those in England were costing £100,000 on average to disinfect against £30,000 in Scotland. A review by accountants and quantity surveyors has revealed irregularities in invoices from contractors, some of which are big construction companies. One paid employees half the hourly rate charged to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The same contractor tried to pass on a £300-a-day administration charge. Time sheets for one employee showed him working on five different sites on one day. Some contractors were unwilling to produce time sheets. Elliot Morley, the animal health minister, said the review would cut the cost of cleansing before re-stocking to £36,000 a farm on average. "Some existing cleansing and disinfecting contracts will be cancelled and others tightened. In some cases payments will be reclaimed." Mr Morley said farmers would get the first chance to tender for contracts to clean their farms. But some costs might be reclaimed from them where improvements to buildings went beyond those necessary to disinfect them.” [6]

The Independence of Carnivores.
It’s always reassuring to hear that those in the food safety agency are enthusiastic about eating bse-infected meat, “Suzi Leather, deputy chairman of the FSA, who said her family still ate lamb, told the BBC: "We are not saying people should stop eating lamb. But we are keeping consumers fully in the picture regarding the risk of bse and sheep."” [7]

Corporate Comics Benefiting from the Spring Lamb Holocaust.
The government has gone back to its old tactic of responding to bad news for pharmers by launching a campaign to encourage people to eat more meat, “The government is considering whether to pay £2.7m toward the campaign, which would match funds from the meat and livestock commission and double funds available to boost lamb sales at home following the ban on exports because of foot and mouth.” [8] As ever these days in the advertising world, a corporate comic is receiving huge sums of money to appear in an Animal exploitation commercial, “The meat and livestock commission said it was planning to continue to use Harry Enfield's "nice but dim" character to promote lamb in the media. A spokesman said: "We await with interest the final results of the research but until then we propose to say sheepmeat is safe to eat. Because of the export ban, there will be a lot of nice lamb around in September. We hope the British public will respond and perhaps eat a little bit more."” [9]

Sunday August 5th 2001: The Day’s Events.
The Sunday Times Reveals Compensation Millionaires.
Jonathan leake reports that, “At least 37 farmers have been made compensation "millionaires" after their livestock were slaughtered in the foot and mouth cull. They have all received cheques for more than £1m - with the largest being for £4.2m - an amount which has shocked ministers and embarrassed the National Farmers' Union (NFU). The identities of most of the 37 compensation millionaires is uncertain, although almost all are likely to be specialist breeders of pedigree cattle, some of whose animals could have been worth up to £45,000 each. Whitehall and industry sources say the recipient of the largest payment, for £4.2m, was Jim Goldie, whose 741 Charollais and Limousin cattle, plus 531 Texel sheep, were slaughtered in March after disease broke out on his two farms. Goldie admits to having received compensation, but denied that £4.2m was the correct figure. He refused to confirm the actual amount, saying it was his personal business. Critics say that what such figures really show is how over-dependent farming has become on public subsidy. One other farmer has received more than £2m compensation, and there are hundreds more with livestock worth more than £1m. Few farmers have insurance against the risk of disease. By contrast, almost every other type of business in Britain has to buy its own insurance and include the cost among its overheads.” [10] Jonathan leake & simon trump point out that, “Jim Goldie opened the envelope and out fluttered the kind of cheque that most businessmen can only dream of - a seven-figure sum, said by official sources to be £4.2m.” [11] “Like Thompson, most farmers receiving large compensation cheques have kept quiet about it. Most fear they will be at the least resented by neighbouring farmers or at the worst accused of dishonesty. Such reticence follows the publicity given to men like Willie Cleave who, according to local witnesses, walked into the George hotel near his base in Hatherleigh, Devon, and asked who would have a drink on the ministry - and ultimately the taxpayer. His compensation cheque for £1.3m was already banked.” [12]

The Nuala Preston Story is given a Political Airing.
David harrison of the electronic telegraph writes about nuala preston a female pharmer had been asked if she wanted to buy a f&m infected Animal so she could claim compensation. Her story had been covered by the mirror - see july 30th above, “Miss Preston, 41, told the officer that the man had a "neutral" accent and "sounded like a salesman". His "product" would have increased the value of Miss Preston's 45 sheep from as little as £450 to £4,050: farmers receive £90 compensation for each infected sheep, compared with only £10-£20 at slaughter for a healthy one. But, far from being tempted, she was "amazed and horrified" and told the mystery caller, in no uncertain terms, to go away. But what most surprised Miss Preston was that the call from the police came four weeks after the "salesman" had rung her. She had reported the incident to the rural affairs ministry at the time, but was told not to bother informing the police because there was "no evidence". "I was shocked and deflated by the ministry's attitude, because there had been rumours that this was happening," she told The Telegraph. "I thought it was a serious issue because so far we have not had foot and mouth around here."” [13]

Somehow or other margaret beckett and elliott morley heard about the story and publicized her complaint, “Last week, however, as foot and mouth flared up again and farmers grew angry about leaked "lies" over the cost of the clean-up, the ministry suddenly became very interested in Miss Preston's "salesman". The story ran on the front page of a Sunday broadsheet newspaper sympathetic to New Labour, supported by quotes from ministers. By the following morning, Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), had ordered an "investigation" into claims that farmers were deliberately infecting animals to claim compensation far above their animals' market value. Elliott Morley, the junior rural affairs minister, raised the temperature by saying that his department had been inundated with such allegations. A senior ministry official added gravely: "We have a duty to investigate these allegations. There now seems to be a real suspicion that some farms have been deliberately infected." What began as a claim by one named farmer that she had been offered - and refused - money to infect her sheep had been turned into a clear suggestion that other farmers had been made similar offers - some of which had been taken up. The implicit message was clear: farmers were money-grabbing cheats. The anti-farmers headlines spread as fast as the virulent disease that has led to the slaughter of 3,648,200 animals. Yet, by last night, Mrs Beckett's "investigation" had produced precisely nothing. Nor had the police found anything. There is no evidence that a single farm has been deliberately infected. Ministry officials are now backing away from the furore they created, claiming that there was never a specific investigation, but that they would look into any individual incidents drawn to their attention.” [14]

Reporter undermines his own Doubts.
Harrison is sceptical about the idea of pharmers infecting their own flocks and yet he too had heard rumours of such activities, “It will probably never be known if any farmers have deliberately infected their sheep. If they have, they are unlikely to admit it. What is known is that a number of farmers has received calls from people offering to infect their sheep for between £400 and £5,000. These calls have been made sporadically over several months, but again the Government did not act until last week. In June, The Telegraph learnt that two farmers in Kent had received similar calls. They were outraged by the offers, but refused to speak on the record or go to the police for fear of recriminations. One described the call: "The man at the end of the phone sounded businesslike and intelligent. He told me that he would deliver foot and mouth disease between midnight and 1am. "He did not get the chance to say how he would get the disease on to the farm because I called him low-life scum and told him to dig a pit and bury himself."” [15]

The Pharmers of course Blame Somebody Else.
As far as pharmers are concerned these stories are just fabrications, “Farmers are convinced that Labour used the Nuala Preston story as a smear campaign to deflect attention from the foot and mouth resurgence and the Government's "lies" over the cost of the clean-up. Defra had earlier leaked a startling figure of more than £100,000 as the bill for cleaning and disinfecting each farm. It caused an outcry and damaging comparisons were made with European countries, where the cleaning was being done at a fraction of that cost. The clean-up was halted and opprobrium was heaped on "greedy" farmers. The farmers were furious and fought back, claiming that the cost per farm was nearer £25,000-£30,000. The leak was in danger of backfiring. The media's attention had to be drawn to something else.” [16]

Backbenchers Revolting over Cruise Liner Payments to Pharmers.
The political flare up over the f&m epidemic may have been stoked by backbench labour mps incensed at the compensation going to pharmers whilst their urban constituents were getting nothing, “There are increasing signs of discontent among Labour backbenchers about the size of the payments and the government's handling of the dispute. Eric Martlew, of the Commons agriculture select committee, said: "The NFU seems to think the public purse is to be dipped into whenever it wants. There is no other industry that receives these kinds of subsidies."” [17] ; “Among those voicing concern over the scale of compensation packages is Austin Mitchell MP, a member of the agriculture select committee. "There is serious concern about the scale of these costs and we shall be inquiring into this as soon as parliament reconvenes after the summer break," said Mitchell, when he was approached by The Sunday Times with evidence of the payments. His words were echoed by Eric Martlew, another member of the committee, who blamed the spread of the epidemic on the early refusal by the National Farmers' Union (NFU) to co-operate with a vaccination programme. "The NFU seems to think the public purse is to be dipped into whenever it wants. There is no other industry that receives these kinds of subsidies," he added.” [18]

Morley being set up as the Next Cunningham.
The last time that pharmers, and their allies in the media, orchestrated a campaign against a labour cabinet minister, they succeeded in getting rid of him. It seems the pharming community is beginning to treat elliott morely in the same way as jack cunningham. David harrison states, “Privately, some other senior farming officials finger Mr Morley as the chief "spinner" against farmers. A spokesman for Defra denied that the Government was involved in a propaganda war, but the skirmishing continued all last week as the foot and mouth crisis worsened.” [19] Pharmers don’t want to hear government officials telling them their life of subsidized luxury is over, “Morley, the minister who is responsible for animal health, said the government would meet its obligations to farmers by paying compensation for the remainder of this outbreak - but emphasised that it would be "the last time" they could expect such payments. "I think there will have to be a major independent inquiry into foot and mouth. There may have to be more than one because there are so many facets to the industry. There must also be a major restructuring of the industry," he said.” [20]

Cost of the F&M Epidemic.
“The revelation about the million-pound compensation payments coincides with new figures showing that foot and mouth has cost taxpayers more than the entire British agricultural industry produces in pre-tax profits each year. Last year the net value of all farm produce was £1.9 billion. By contrast, ministers admitted last week that foot and mouth has cost taxpayers £2.2 billion in direct costs - and several times that in indirect costs such as damage to tourism.” [21] ; “Research conducted by the University of Wales revealed last week that by opting for a "quick cull" policy, instead of following a programme of selected vaccination, the government had increased the total cost of the foot and mouth epidemic from between £1.5 billion and £2 billion to about £5 billion by the end of the year. These figures took into account the cost of the clear-up operation, compensating farmers and the loss of income from tourism.” [22]

Vaccination Cheaper than Slaughter.
“The row over vaccinating animals against foot and mouth - which many farmers favour - was revived yesterday when a University of Wales study showed that an inoculation programme would have cost £3 billion less than the £5 billion slaughter policy. The research, by Professor Peter Midmore, an economist at the University of Wales, claimed that the cost of the current operation could be halved if healthy animals were inoculated now. The study claimed that a programme of vaccinating animals in "rings" around outbreaks would have cost between £1.5 billion and £2 billion - compared with the £5 billion the slaughter policy is expected to have cost by the end of the year.” [23]

Coleman’s Warning over Bse in Sheep.
Coleman comments on the provisional of the ‘wrong brains experiments’, “I first warned that mad cow disease was killing Sheep in 1996. I wrote back in april 1997 when i warned readers, “If you eat lamb you are exposing yourself to a real risk of a hideous death.” [24]

Monday August 6th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Who Triggered off the Political Flare up Over F&M Subsidies?
The political flare up of the f&m epidemic in the sunday papers over the weekend is explored by channel four’s news at seven which tries to work out who was behind the flare up. Was mcblair doing a spin job on pharmers? After all, mcblair might have felt a little vulnerable about so much money being given to pharmers and might have wanted to cover his back in case there was a public backlash. Is it possible that government ministers, rather than the prime minister, might have provoked the political outburst by leaking stories to the press? Could it have been labour backbenchers trying to prevent yet more subsidies being given to the pharming industry? Could it have been journalists who, having a good idea about what pharmers have been up to, had become exasperated by the vast subsidies pouring into pharmers’ pockets? Perhaps even they were beginning to balk at pharmers going to their local pub and buying everyone a round of drinks with their compensation payments. When channel four news asked ben gill who was behind the flare up he responded rather enigmatically, “All of the information is in the public domain but somebody has pulled it together to make a story out of it.” Now, just who would do such a cruel thing as this? - see sp34.

Government Rowing Back in its War of Words with Pharmers
Over the last four years or so, pharmers have found that if they say boo to mcblair he generally gives them whatever resources they want. The same also happened over the political flare up over f&m. Having allowed government ministers to launch a wave of criticisms against pharmers mcblair suddenly changed his mind and offered pharmers more subsidies.

Firstly, he resumed the clean up payments, “The cleansing before re-stocking had been stopped for two weeks by the Prime Minister after he was told those in England were costing £100,000 on average to disinfect against £30,000 in Scotland.” [25]

Secondly, he sought to win praise from pharmers for allowing them to rob the treasury of billions of pounds, “The Government sought to defuse a row with farmers yesterday over the mounting cost of compensation for cattle slaughtered as a result of the foot and mouth epidemic. The Prime Minister's spokesman insisted that the Government was "doing right" by the farmers - although he pointed out that agriculture received more in subsidy than the whole of British industry. Downing Street denied that ministers had leaked details of at least 47 individual farmers who stood to receive compensation of more than £1 million each in an attempt to justify moves to require the industry to take out insurance against such epidemics in future. The disclosure of the compensation payments was made against a background of growing public and political concern over the cost to the taxpayer of dealing with the epidemic, although that figure has now been revised down from £2.2 billion to £1.6 billion.” [26]

Thirdly, mcblair seemed to believe the subsidies for f&m were insufficient so the government announced a spring Lamb scheme to buy surplus Animals, slaughter them, and then keep the corpses in cold storage until they could be sold.

Finally, mcblair made it known he was not keen on the idea of pharmers taking out insurance against future diseases, “There is basically no need for farmers to take out insurance. This is because the government says that it is required, under the 1981 Animal Health Act, to compensate farmers for losing their animals as a result of disease control measures. In practice, this means that if the government orders animals to be destroyed, it must then compensate farmers for the cost of replacing them.” [27]

Cost of the F&M Epidemic to Taxpayers.
“An estimated £2.3bn of taxpayer's money has been spent on the foot-and-mouth crisis.” [28]

August 7th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Mcblair Hires Haskins to do the Job that Cunningham was supposed to do before Mcblair stabbed him in the Back.
Mcblair chooses a pharmer to sort out the pharming issue, “Meanwhile, the government's rural recovery co-ordinator Lord Haskins revealed he favoured vaccination in any future outbreak and suggested farmers like himself should receive less in subsidies.” [29] Even worse, this pharmer is a member of the house of lords. He’s also got larry whitty in the lords as the Food and Farming Minister.

Morley takes further Stand against Rich Sponging Pharmers.
“Ministers will look for ways to stop taxpayers having to pay for future foot and mouth outbreaks. Eliot morley, rural affairs minister, said yesterday he was concerned at compensation costs after it emerged 37 farmers will get £1 million. He demanded an inquiry into the option of making farmers insure against outbreaks.” [30]

August 8th 2001: The Day’s Events.
EU to explore Pharmers’ Fraud.
“The European Commission's anti-fraud office has launched an investigation into the system of compensating UK farmers hit by foot-and-mouth disease. The move follows a report by the EU's Food and Veterinary Office two months ago which branded the UK's compensation system as "excessive". The consequences for the UK could be severe as it is thought the EU will foot 60% of the bill for compensating farmers. The report highlighted payments that were significantly higher than the guideline rates and questioned the procedure of allowing farmers to choose their own valuer from a ministry list. Inspectors also attacked illegal animal movements and suggested there had been deliberate infection.” [31]

Lamb slaughter to go Ahead.
“The slaughter of up to 1.5 million healthy lambs was given the go ahead yesterday. The government said it will buy and kill the animals to support the struggling agriculture industry. But it stressed the decision was an ‘exceptional measure’ and would not be repeated. The lamb meat would normally be sold to overseas markets in the autumn.” [32]

New Biosecurity Zone for F&M Epidemic.
“A new foot and mouth security zone was set up in cumbria yesterday after fears of re-infection. Lorries and people entering farms within a 100 square mile area must have a special permit.” [33]

Research Continues into spread of Bse-Cjd.
“Government scientists accused the meat industry yesterday of hampering their bse investigation. They said firms held back vital information on the use of potentially infected cheap beef. Seac wants to know about the use of cheap “slurry” beef known in the trade as mechanically recovered meat, before it was banned in 1995 because of the possible link with vcjd.” [34]

August 13th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Cure for Bse-Cjd?
“The father of a cjd victim given a new drug treatment said yesterday: “Rachel has been cured. She smiles, she laughs, she can talk.” Rachel forner, 20, was confined to a wheelchair and could not talk or feed herself when dad stephen asked nobel prize winning scientist professor stanley pruisiner for help to tackle the killer human form of mad cow disease. Rachel’s astonishing recovery began just 19 days after she started treatment with a drug which had not been tested on people before.” [35]

£50,000 paid out for Sheep having a Common Cold: The Insanity of the Animal Exploitation Industry.
“A prize winning sheep has fetched £50,000 in compensation for its owners after it was culled during the foot and mouth outbreak. It is the largest sum given so far for any single animal killed in the crisis. The pedigree swaledale breeding ram called mossdale nuggett was bought for a record price at auction by two farmers eric nelson of clapham, lancs, and robert cowperthwaite of settle, north yorks, in 1997.” [36]

August 16th 2001: Ben Gill Blaming Somebody Else Again.
“Bbc camera crews helped spread foot and mouth disease, farmers’ leader ben gill said yesterday. Nfu president ben gill claimed helicopters carrying crews over infected sites helped blow the virus into neighbouring areas. The bbc said, “We always stuck to ministry guidelines.” Interviewed on a political website, mr gill also said the government’s handling of the crisis was “dreadful”, adding “Lots of mistakes were made.”” [37]

August 27th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Industrial Resentment about Pharmers’ Subsidies.
“Union chiefs are to urge tony blair to give the same level of cash aid to struggling factories as that given to pharmers hit by the foot and mouth epidemic.” [38]

Another case of F&M Disease.
“A third case of foot and mouth was confirmed yesterday in an area which had been clear of the disease for three months. All of the cases are within about five miles of each other in Northumberland .. Vets yesterday began culling the 95 cattle and 800 sheep at the site of the latest case in catton. It brought the total number of outbreaks to 1,973.” [39]

August 28th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Resurgence of F&M.
“The scourge of foot and mouth seemed to be almost over. Now it is back again. Eleven cases have been discovered in northumberland - three months after the last case there. The mirror still believes that animals should have been vaccinated against foot and mouth.” [40]

No-Go Zone in Hexham.
“Hundreds of miles of farmland were declared a no-go zone yesterday as the foot and mouth outbreak spread. The number of new cases in the allendale valley near hexham, northumberland rose to 11. The public were urged to keep out of the area. About 1,000 cattle and 5,500 sheep have been slaughtered with another 275,000 animals at risk within the zone.” [41]

Another Angle on the Cost of the F&M Epidemic.
“The  f&m crisis has cost tourism almost three times as much as agriculture, britain’s leading rural expert said yesterday. Ewen cameron, chairman of the countryside commission, said farmers had lost £1.5billion this year. Hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions had suffered £4billion losses. In the wake of the fresh outbreak in northumberland, mr cameron called for vaccines to be tested now so that they could be used in any future crisis. He said the public would not accept any more mass culls.” [42]

September 3rd 2001: Another Case of F&M.
“A new case of foot and mouth was confirmed in the north east yesterday bringing the number of outbreaks to 17.” [43]

September 4th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Scale of F&M Epidemic.
“The 2000th case of foot and mouth disease was confirmed yesterday. The landmark figure is still below the 2,354 cases in the outbreak 34 years ago.” [44]

Political Costs of F&M Epidemic.
“Tony blair came under pressure last night as it was claimed spending on education was the lowest since 1962. Professor howard glennerster said britain spent just 4.5% of our national wealth on education in 1998/99 - the lowest in almost 40 years. The london school of economics prof said, “Even in 2003 public spending will only be back to the levels of 1994.”” [45]

September 7th 2001: The Day’s Events.
Ironside’s Predictions of the Scale of Bse Epidemic.
James ironside believes there could be an explosion in the numbers of bse cases, “Cases of the human form of mad cow disease could explode, a leading scientist warned yesterday. Professor james ironside said the number of people contracting and dying from variant cjd is increasing - up 20-30% a year. Ironside, of the national cjd surveillance unit, added, “Moving from a flat pattern, we’re now seeing an upward change. This is a sustained pattern. We’ve had blip before .. this is not a blip.” But he said it was still impossible to predict the scale of the epidemic because no one knows the length of the incubation period or if genetic factors make only some people susceptible. “I think the scenario in which we see millions of cases is very unlikely.”” [46]

Pharmers Murder another Bse-Cjd Victim.
“A young mother has become the latest victim of the human form of mad cow disease. Mum of two julie macrae, 30, was thought to be suffering from depression and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital but died from variant cjd.” [47]

September 10th 2001: Pharmers force Privatization on Labour.
The pharming industry is forcing the labour government to go down the privatization path because of the vast subsidies paid to pharmers, “Tony blair will be deserted by one-in-four labour voters if he presses on with “creeping” privatization in schools and hospitals, a poll out today shows.” [48]

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